G/TBT/N/UGA/1698  
10 November  2022 
(22-8434) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  - Other 
(HS code(s): 210690); Beverages (ICS code(s): 67.160)  
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:  DUS 2037: 
2022, Kombucha — Specification, second edition.  
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.; (13 page(s), 
in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for Kombucha.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of  human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. US CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
2. US EAS 12, Potable water — Specification  
3. US EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements  
4. US EAS 104, Alcoholic beverages — Methods of sampling and test  G/TBT/N/UGA/1698  
 
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  5. US EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  
6. US EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims — Requirements  
7. US ISO 750, Fruit and vegetable products – Determination of tit ratable acidity  
8. US ISO 1842, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of pH  
9. US ISO 6633, Fruit and vegetables products — Determination of lead content — 
Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
10. US ISO 6634, Fruit, vegetables and derived products — Determination of arsenic 
content — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method  
11. US ISO 6637, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
mercury content — Flameless atomic absorption method  
12. US ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegeta bles and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
13. US 28, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry  
14. US 45, General standard for food additives  
15. US 1659, Ma terials in contact with food — Requirements for packaging materials  
16. US ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
17. US ISO 21 527-1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 1, Colony count 
technique in products with water activity greater than 0.95  
18. US ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stu ffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus 
aureus and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
19. US ISO 6579 –1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection , enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp  
20. US 872:2011, Fermented (non -alcoholic) cereal beverages — Specification.  
21. WHO, Alcohol labelling.  
22. Kombucha Brewing Under the Food and Drug Administration Model Food Code: 
Risk Analysis and Processing Guidance – Special report.  
23. Kombucha Code of Practice, Kombucha Brewers International Code of Practice, 
Version 2.2  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/UGA/1698  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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